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CPI bandh call on medical seat issue

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PONDICHERY: The Pondicherry State committee of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has called for a 24-hour bandh in Pondicherry from August 3 to highlight the "suffering undergone" by students seeking admission to private medical colleges, said party secretary and MLA, N. Kalainathan.

Speaking to presspersons here on Saturday, Mr. Kalainathan said the bandh had become necessary to press the Union Territory Administration to ensure that the two private medical colleges — the Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences and the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute — implemented the government order fixing 50:50 pattern of sharing seats in the MBBS course for the 2005-06 academic year.

Mr. Kalainathan said that the Pondicherry government-sponsored Centralised Admission Committee (CENTAC) had completed the counselling and sponsored 50 students for each of the two medical colleges.

However, when the students approached the colleges for admission they were told that a case was pending in Supreme Court on the pattern of admission.

Mr. Kalainathan said the case did not relate to the sponsoring of candidates under the government order and hence there was no justification for the managements to turn away these students.

He said that the party had planned to organise a 48-hour bandh at a later date if there was no positive response from the government.

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